Jasper Williams
Posted: April 10, 2009
TALBOTT, Tenn. — Jasper Ervin Williams, 77, died April 7, 2009, at his residence. Services are Saturday at 2 p.m. at Calvert Funeral Home Chapel in West Point with the Rev. Mike Hunter officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Bluff Methodist Cemetery in Cedar Bluff. Visitation is Saturday from 12:30-2 p.m. at the funeral home. Mr. Williams was born June 18, 1931, in Shaw, where he spent his early childhood. He graduated from West Point High School in 1949 and attended Mississippi State College. He served in the U.S. Army in Korea from 1951-1952 with the First Calvary. He retired with the State of Tennessee Employment Service. He opened and managed the first Holiday Inn in Morristown, Tenn., in 1966, managed the Ramada Inn in Morristown and operated Ervin’s Restaurant in White Pine, Tenn. He was a member of Panther Springs United Methodist Church, where he had participated in the choir. He was a former member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Morristown and Christ Methodist Church in West Point. He was preceded in death by his parents, Jasper and Ruth Lyon Williams; son, Darryl Ervin Williams; and brother, Osborne Williams. He is survived by his wife, Katheryn Gilreath Williams; daughters: Mona Jank of Johnson City, Tenn., and Lynn Turner of Hurley; sister, Rebecca Ruth Boyd of Brandon; three grandchildren and two great-grandsons. Pallbearers will be Henry Applewhite, Keith and Robert Blair, Bryan Guin, David Orman, Samuel Turner, James Law and Steve McKee. Memorials may be made to: Cedar Bluff Methodist Church, c/o Miss Mary Rose Lyon, 419 McCord St., West Point, MS 39773; or to the charity of choice.